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LIT-717: Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry

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StatusUnavailable — registered 2026-10-05 from Crossref, not read: no lawful full text could be reached (Princeton University Press via De Gruyter is closed). Its account is read first-hand in Longino's own Stanford Encyclopedia entry, "The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge" (LIT-725), §5, which states the argument from underdetermination and the four community norms. Filed because an essay the owner is writing cites "Helen Longino's social epistemology" for institutionalized criticism. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied, not on merit.
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Helen E. Longino (1990), Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry, Princeton: Princeton University Press — DOI-10.1515/9780691209753

Key takeaways

Registered, not read. What the record holds of its argument is what Longino states of it in her SEP entry (LIT-725), §§4–5:

  • The book “develops a contextual empiricism to analyze research in human evolution and in neuroendocrinology”.
  • Its starting point is an underdetermination argument: evidential relations are mediated by background assumptions, and the chain of justification ends in assumptions for which no evidence is available.
  • The only check on the arbitrary dominance of preference among such assumptions is critical interaction among members of a community, which must meet norms of effectiveness to count as objective.

The four norms themselves are given in the entry; this record does not know from the book how they were first stated or how they were revised in LIT-732.

Standing in the record

Filed on 2026-10-05 at the owner’s request, with The Fate of Knowledge (LIT-732), as the works behind an essay’s §8.2. The account is THEORY-151, sourced on the SEP entry.

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